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Women make up slightly over a quarter of first authors in The Lancet, JAMA and NEJM, with no improvement between 2002 and 2019

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Trends over time in proportion of first authors by gender.

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Credit: Krstacic et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Women make up slightly over a quarter of first authors in The Lancet, JAMA and NEJM, with no improvement between 2002 and 2019

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261209

Article Title: Academic medicine’s glass ceiling: Author’s gender in top three medical research journals impacts probability of future publication success

Author Countries: U.S.A.

Funding: Dr. Tannous’ General T. F. Cheng Endowment provided partial funding support.


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